TY  - BOOK
AU  - Znamenski,Andrei A.
TI  - Socialism as a Secular Creed: A Modern Global History
SN  - 9781498557313
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Lanham, Boulder ; , New York, London
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Sozialismus
KW  - Socialism-History
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Fernzugriff
N1  - E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich; Cover -- Socialism as a Secular Creed -- Socialism as a Secular Creed: A Modern Global History -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Socialism Studies and Socialism as a Modern Political Religion -- Utopians, Marxists, Anarchists, and Ethno-Nationalism -- How Do We Name It? "Socialism," "Communism," and "Social Democracy" -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Religion of Modernity -- "Rational Brethren of the West": Robert Owen, New Harmony and Socialist Halls of Science -- "Conspiracy of Equals" and the "New Christianity" of Henri Saint-Simon -- Comte's Religion of Humanity and Saint-Simonian Apostles -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- "Sabbath of History" -- Toward "Scientific Socialism": Marx, Engels, and Hess -- "Scientific" Magic and Communist Millennium: Marx and Engels Invent the Proletariat -- Marx and Engels Purge Anarchist Heretics -- How to Assimilate a Peasant Commune into Marxism: Marx and Russian Populist Seekers -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Great Schism -- Socialist Organizer and Womanizer: The Fast Life of Ferdinand Lassalle -- Reforming the Creed: Bernstein Revisionism and Fabians -- Radical Cosmopolitans: Lenin, Luxemburg, and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution -- State of the Future: "War Socialism" to "War Communism," 1914-1918 -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- Prophecy of the World Revolution and Nationalist Temptations, 1917-1930s -- "Red Jesuits": Bolshevik Dreams of the World Revolution, 1917-1923 -- From the Communist International to Socialism in One Country, 1919-1929 -- "Our Own People": Making of Jewish Socialist Identity -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- National Bolshevism -- Cannibalizing the Countryside: Collectivization and Industrialization, 1929-1933 -- Stalinist Social Engineering and the Great Terror, 1934-1939 -- Late Stalinism, 1940sc-1953sc -- Political Religion of Marxism-Leninism -- Notes -- Chapter 6; True Believers, Fellow Travelers, and Dissenters (1920s-1940s) -- Ludwig von Mises and "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth" (1920) -- "Perfect Equilibrium": How OSKAR Lange "Defeated" Friedrich Hayek, 1930s -- F. A. Hayek, George Orwell, and the Left Mainstream -- Light from the East: Western Fellow Travelers -- Notes -- Chapter 7 -- Creating Community -- Emergence of German National Socialism -- Hitler's Willing Beneficiaries -- "Socialism of the Race": Nazi Ideology -- Politics of Nazi Studies: From National Socialists to Nazi -- Notes -- Chapter 8 -- "Regime of Goodness" -- Between Marx and Keynes: European Social Democracy Search for the "Third Way" -- Building "People's Home" in Sweden -- "Swedish Socialism" and Its Fate -- Notes -- Chapter 9 -- Blood and Soil in the Palestine Desert -- From Eastern Europe to Palestine: Populists, Folk Community, and Socialist Zionism -- Kibbutz Settlements and the Religion of Labor -- The Culture of Nationalist Socialism -- Political Economy of Kibbutzim and the Decline of the "Frontier Socialism," 1960s-1980s -- Notes -- Chapter 10 -- The East Is Red -- Stalinism with Chinese Characteristics, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution (1949-1976) -- North Korea: The Dynasty of Red-Brown Pharaohs (1945-Present) -- Maoism Goes Wild: Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (1975-1979) -- Notes -- Chapter 11 -- African Socialism -- Julius Nyerere: Nation Building and Ujamaa Socialism, 1960s -- "Operation Planned Villages" in Tanzania, 1970s -- Zimbabwe: Shona, Matabele, and the Rise of Robert Mugabe -- National Socialism on the Banks of the Limpopo River -- "Crocodile" Economy: Zimbabwe Becomes a Failed State -- Notes -- Chapter 12 -- The Western Left -- The Western Left Mainstream: Exorcizing Communism and Playing Down Marx, 1960s-1990s; "Masters of the Universe": The Great Neoliberalism Scare, 1990sc-2010sc -- Notes -- Chapter 13 -- Retreat of Socialism in the Soviet Union and China (1980s-2008) -- In the Soviet House of Cards: From "Advanced Socialism" to Stillborn "Socialism with a Human Face," 1960sc-1991 -- A Capitalist Bird in a Communist Cage: "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics," 1978-2010sc -- Notes -- Chapter 14 -- How Marxism Became Cultural -- "Sense of Classlessness" and British Cultural Studies, 1950sc-1970sc -- Gramsci, Frankfurt School, and the Metaphysics of the Proletariat, 1920sC-1970sC -- Notes -- Chapter 15 -- The Cultural Left and the "Curse" of the Western Civilization, 1960s-2010s -- "Noble Savages" of the New Left -- Marxian Socialists and the Cultural Left -- Apocalypse Now: Eco-socialism -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
N2  - This book provides a historical overview of socialism as a modern political religion. Taking a global history approach, the author explores the varieties of the socialist experience, including Marxism, anarchism, Soviet communism, German national socialism, Maoism, Israeli kibbutzim, Tanzanian ujamaa, and the cultural woke left in the West
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